Experience

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Austin, TX

Supervisor – Planning Model Administration                                                     May 2025 – Present

  • Reorged and spun Model Administration team into Operations Model Administration and Planning Model Administration. Supervisor for a team of 5 engineers on Planning Modeling Administration.

Supervisor – Model Administration                                                                  April 2022 – May 2025

  • Managed and scaled a team from 5 to 10 engineers responsible for the building and delivery of operations and steady state/short-circuit/geomagnetic disturbance models and associated data products, model management system administration, and modeling tool development.

  • Managed the team by holding 1:1 coaching sessions, mentoring staff, setting yearly goals, and department road mapping. Performed team budget planning, and coordinated all aspects of hiring and performance management for engineers and interns.

  • Oversaw multiple capital projects costing up to several million dollars by developing vendor relationships, drafting initial contracts, creating project roadmaps, doing resource planning and project scheduling, and providing technical expertise across the Network Modeling department.

    • Oversaw the development and release of PSS/E 35 node-breaker models.

    • Managed the schedule, work, and technical aspects of multiple MAGE projects.

    • Managed the work and technical aspects of ERCOTs conversion to CIM 16.

  • Responsible for compliance with relevant NERC standards and ERCOT Protocols. Assessed new standard revisions for impact to ERCOT, reviewed RSAWs, and participated in NERC audits.

  • Technical expert for ERCOTs network modeling on operational, steady state, short circuit, geomagnetic disturbance models, and NMMS infrastructure.

  • Member of NERC LLTF. Writer and paper editor on WP1 – load constructs, and operations & planning risks sections. Writer and paper editor for WP2 – lead on the balancing and operations section. Writer for RG – lead for balancing and operations section. Member of ESIG LLTF – lead on the Large Load Behaviors, Capabilities, and Limitations section.

Network Model Engineer Senior – Model Administration                        March 2022 – April 2022

Network Model Engineer 3 – Model Administration                           January 2021 – March 2022

Network Model Engineer 2 – Model Administration                               July 2018 – January 2021

  • Led the SSWG, SPWG, and PGDTF case builds, building interconnection wide steady state, short circuit, and geomagnetic disturbance models. Built ERCOTs second ever set of geomagnetic disturbance models while reducing the model build time from 12 to 4 months by developing an Access database to preserve and manage model data. Ensured ERCOT met R2 for TPL-007.

  • Facilitated planning case building using MOD by building SSWG cases, maintaining generation models, dispatching steady state power flow cases with PowerWorld, and resolving modeling issues.

  • Modeled and validated generation sites in PSS/E and ASPEN Oneliner for new interconnecting generators. Improved generation modeling procedures to simplify short circuit models and improved voltage coordination in steady state models.

  • Developed and maintained modeling software tools: a VB application to automate generation facility data validation, Access databases to validate steady state models, VB application housing steady state modeling tools, Python scripts, and SQL queries.

  • Maintained model management systems such as Siemens MOD and NMMS. Worked on capital projects to upgrade the systems by writing requirements, performing testing, and upgraded internal tools.

  • Updated the NMMS Common Information Model (CIM) schema and wrote SQL validation rules to support FFR, energy storage, and new modeling concepts.

  • Built NMMS operations models for EMS, MMS, GridGeo, and other downstream systems.

  • Advised on modeling requirements for ERCOTs RIOO project, wrote scripts to translate DER models from the CIM model to PSSE change files.

  • Taught SQL, generation modeling, coding, steady state voltage coordination, generation dispatching, and how to solve powerflow cases to new engineers in ERCOT and TSPs.

  • Trained and mentored over 15 new engineers. Assigned and managed projects from project conception to completion which saved several weeks of FTE time per year.

Engineer 1 – Engineer Development Program                                                June 2017 – July 2018

  • Completed rotations in transmission planning, operations, and markets while working in network modeling. Created a process of case creation for probabilistic planning using Uplan to dispatch generation based on historical renewable forecasts.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science Electrical & Computer Engineering - Worcester Polytechnic Institute May 2017

  • Texas Executive Education Certificate in Managerial Leadership - McCombs School of Business - University of Texas at Austin February 2025

Skills

Power System Tools: PSS/E, ASPEN Oneliner, PowerWorld, Siemens MOD, MAGE

Programming Languages: Oracle SQL (PL/SQL), VBA, VB, Python

Software Tools: Microsoft Office, Git/BitBucket, Confluence Jira & Wiki, Jenkins

Certifications: Professional Engineer – Texas #147736

Professional Societies: IEEE Senior Member, CIGRE Member

Volunteering

Texas State University

Member - Electrical Engineering Program Industry Advisory Board            April 2023 – Present

  • Advise on electrical engineering curriculum and the needs of industry from future engineers.

Bismarck State College

Member – Electrical Transmission Systems Technology Advisory Board   May 2024 – Present

  • Advise on electrical engineering curriculum and the needs of industry from future engineers.

Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers

Awards and Workshop Chair, IEEE Austin PI2 Chapter                                 January 2025 - Present

Tours and Technical Programs Co-chair, IEEE PES 2025 GM LOC              June 2024 - July 2025

Chair, IEEE Austin PI2 Chapter                                                           January 2023 – December 2024

  • Responsible for chapter operations managing 10+ volunteers and a $8k budget to hold monthly technical meetings and yearly workshops that offer PDHs for licensed engineers, social, and networking events.

  • Organized PI2 2024 Workshop on Generator Interconnection that had 50+ attendees and nearly $20k in revenue.

Vice-Chair, IEEE Central Texas Young Professionals                     August 2022 – December 2024

Secretary, IEEE Austin PI2 Chapter                                                   January 2020 – December 2023

Program Chair, IEEE Austin PI2 Chapter                                          October 2019 – December 2020

Awards

  • IEEE Region 5 Individual Member Achievement Award – 2023

  • IEEE PI2 Austin Outstanding Engineer of the Year Award – 2022

  • IEEE PES Outstanding Chapter Volunteer Award – 2022

Talks and Presentations

2025

  • SPP TechExpo

    • Large Load Integration and operation from ISO/RTOs perspectives: Lessons from ERCOT

  • Open Compute Project Rack and Power Call

    • Design Implications of Power Grid Voltage Ride-Through Requirements for Data Centers

  • IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting

    • Perspectives on Grid Transformation

    • Planning for a New Era of Load Growth in ERCOT

  • CIGRE/IEEE SYP Webinar

    • Large Loads and Their Impact on the Grid - Slides

2024

  • Siemens Energy Customer Association Meeting

    • Renewable Integration and Modeling in ERCOT

2023

  • IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting

    • ERCOT Experiences with CIM

  • CIM User Group North America

    • Operations and Planning Model Alignment - Slides

2022

  • Texas A&M

    • Electric Grid Planning and Operations with Large Flexible Loads

  • PSS User Group Meeting

    • ERCOT PSS/E Node Breaker Implementation

  • Siemens Energy Customer Association Meeting

    • ERCOT NMMS Tech Health Project Review

Publications

S. W. Kang, E. Meier, N. Kadel, J. Jin and D. Aryal, "An Approach for Probabilistic Composite Power System Transmission Planning - ERCOT," 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)

Organized Panels and Workshops

2025

  • IEEE PES GM Panels

    • Large Load Integration in ERCOT

    • Resource Adequacy and Energy Assurance Super Session

2024

  • IEEE Central Texas Section PI2 Generator Interconnection Workshop

Panels Discussions

2024

  • MISO/E3 Probabilistic Planning Symposium

    • RTO/ISO Roundtable – Incorporating Uncertainty into Long-Term Transmission Planning

    • Contingency Assessment in Transmission Reliability Planning

2023

  • PSS User Group Meeting

    • PSS/E Cloud Panel Discussion

Media

RTO Insider

MISO Draws in Experts for Probabilistic Planning Symposium

IEEE Industry Application Society Magazine Pathways Column

A Journey That Began in Third Grade, With a Book on Atomic Physics

Data Center and System Studies Podcast

Large Load Interconnection to ERCOT Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8vmSHwFrvE

July 2025

Webinars

CIMug Webinar | Modernizing Grid Intelligence

https://cimug.org/past-cim-meetings/cimug-webinar-modernizing-grid-intelligence/

September 2025